Gregory Flaxman
Hire Date: 2003
Current Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Adjunct Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Affiliated faculty, Program in Cultural Studies
Principal Areas of Expertise
Theory: Critical Theory and Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Narratology; Aesthetics
Cinema: Film and Genre Theory; Classical Hollywood and Post-Classical American Cinema
Literature: Postwar American Fiction
Education
PhD Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania (2003)
MA Film Studies, University of Iowa (1997)
MA English, University of Minnesota (1995)
BA English, University of Michigan (1991)
Recent Awads & Honors
2008 Student Undergraduate Teaching Award (SUTASA)
2007-8 John Hope Franklin Foundation Fellowship, Duke University
2007 Association of Graduate English Students, Mentoring Award
2007 Center for European Studies Faculty/Student Research Award
2007 University Research Council, Junior Faculty Development Award
2007 UNC Small Grant Award
2006 Spray Randleigh Faculty Fellowship
Current Projects
Powers of the False: Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of PhilosophyAn analysis of Gilles Deleuze's mode of philosophical expression, tracing the question of style in light of his critique of representation and his turn toward alternate modes of thinking and writing.
The Film/Philosophy Reader (edited with Elena Oxman)
A broad-based anthology that brings together the vast history of philosophical writings on the cinema, from the first considerations of the medium to the most recent work of cognitive and continental philosophers.
Book Publications
Editor, The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of the Cinema.
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
Reviewed in Screen (Winter 2002), Film-Philosophy (Fall 2001), Film Criticism (Fall 2001).
Recent Articles
"Losing Face" in Schizoanalysis of Cinema, ed. Ian Buchanon and Patricia MacCormack (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming)."Sci Phi" in Producing the New: Deleuze, Guattari, and Contemporary Life ed. Simon O'Sullivan and Stephen Zepke (London: Continuum, forthcoming).
"Chaos and Seriality" in Deleuze, Science, and the Force of the Virtual, ed. Peter Gaffney (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming)
"Deleuze's Platonism" in The Deleuze Heritage Collection, ed. Graham Jones and John Roffe (Edinburgh: University of Edinburg Press, forthcoming).
"The Politics of Non-Being" in Deleuze and the Social, ed. Peta Malina (London: Palgrave, 2007).
"The Future of Utopia" in Symploke (Vol. 14, 2006).
"Ten Propositions on the Brain" (with Gregg Lambert). Pli Journal of Philosophy (vol. 16, 2005).
"Transcendental Aesthetics: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Space." Deleuze and Space, ed. Ian Buchanon and Gregg Lamberg (Edinburgh: University of Edinburg Press, 2005).
Articles and Talks on the Web
"The Philosophy of Fiction, the Fiction of Philosophy"
The Lilian Furst Comparative Literature Speakers' Series
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 2006
"Five Propositions on the Brain (Or, the Image of Kubrick)" (with Gregg Lambert).
Journal of Neuro-Aesthetic Theory: Cinema and the Brain #2.02 (2002) (2000 words)
"Present Imperfect, Future Unknown: The Dilemma of Contemporary Theory." The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory. #4.2 (2003) (6000 words)
"The Civilization of Cinema"
The University of Pennsylvania in conjunction with Slought Network, November 2004.
Classes Designed and Taught
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Graduate
ENGL 216 Proseminar on American Literature, 1870-Present
ENGL 141 Introduction to Theory: Truth and Lying
ENGL 291 Introduction to Semiotics: Symptoms and Signs
ENGL 391 The Anthropology of Power
ENGL 661 Psychoanalysis and Schizoanalysis
Undergraduate
ENGL 27 Reading the Romantic Comedy
ENGL 27 The Western in Film and Literature
ENGL 42 Film Criticism
ENGL 49 Honors Seminar on Secrecy and Conspiracy
ENGL 90 Introduction to Cultural Studies (cross-listed with Cultural Studies)
ENGL 131 Introduction to Comparative Literature
Department of English
508 Greenlaw Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520
(919) 962-4043 (office)
gflax@email.unc.edu